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Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, July 13th at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Our topic for this week’s chat is meaningful accessibility, a topic suggestion from Kirby Crider (@kirbycrizzle). More and more organizations are adding in policies meant to increase accessibility. But as people who use these features can tell you, …

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, July 6th at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Our topic for this week’s chat is on sharing our experiences with learning independently. Last summer we celebrated the 4th of July with a #GuildChat on learning independence, looking at the topic from a strategic and organizational …

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, May 25th at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Our topic for this week’s chat is Supporting Different Expertise Levels. As learning professionals we strive to support all learning needs in an organization and although greater effort is often spent on helping employees learn something …

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, May 18th at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Our topic for this week’s chat is the evolution of instructional design and it’s the final chat in our series of discussions exploring themes from Learning Solutions 2018 panels. While it’s true that instructional design has …

This guest post comes to us from Myra Roldan, an Instructional Designer at Amazon. She’s also an upcoming speaker at our 2018 Realities360 Conference, where she’ll be speaking about rapid development for both augmented reality and virtual reality. As a now seasoned speaker, I have been able to look at L&D conferences through a …

It’s that time again – conference proposal review season! If you’re curious about what exactly goes in to our conference building process, you may want to check out our series of behind the scenes TWIST posts in which we share the full journey, start to finish, of how we craft the program …

If you’re coming to Learning Solutions 2018, now is about the time where you may be starting to think about what sessions you’re going to attend. But if you aren’t able to come to the conference this year, don’t worry. You’re not completely left out either. This year we’ll be live …

Conferences are a fantastic way to build new skills, learn about new tools/techniques, and get inspiration. But they’re also a good place to meet new people and have a few laughs too. Last year we launched a fun evening activity called Presentation Roulette that was part presentation, and part improv …

Bringing in new voices to conferences is incredibly important. It ensures we’re getting a wide range of perspectives at the event, helps the conference to continue to feel fresh, and enables more of the community to participate and share. That said, when you’re someone who’s never spoken at a conference before, it’s not …

This guest post comes to us from Jenny Saucerman, an instructional designer at Web Courseworks. She’s also an upcoming speaker at Learning Solutions 2018 Conference & Expo, where she’ll be facilitating a hands-on workshop on building branching scenarios. As instructional designers, we are constantly on the lookout for new educational tools. Some …

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TWIST is the official blog of The eLearning Guild. Posts on this blog will offer insights, ideas, perspectives, and discussion on the current trends in the learning industry, the technologies used to support learning and performance, happenings at the Guild, tips for professional development, and much more. Each post will include the personal ‘twist’ of the writers, including members of the Guild team and guest bloggers from the Guild community.